Slide loop



G. H. ELWELL Sept. 27, 1949.

SLIDE LOOP Filed Oct. 26, 1944 INVE TOR.

Patented Sept. 27, 1949 SLIDE LOOP George Henry Elwell, New Haven, Conn., assignor to Eastern Tool and Manufacturing Company, Bloomfield, N. J a corporation Application October 26, 1944, Serial No. 560,443

1 Claim.

This invention relates to slide loops, the same being the structural combination of a slide and a button loop for use upon straps of overalls and the like.

With reference to the accompanying drawing, the Figure 1 is an upright face view of the improved device; Figure 2 is an upright side view of the device illustrating outwardly swung intermediate bar with clotted outline of initially inserted strap portion; and Figure 3 is a similar side View as in the previous figure, but illustrating the intermediate bar and the strap portion drawn taut within the device.

With more particular reference to the accompanying drawing, the numeral 1! designates the sheet-metal or plastic body portion of the de-- vice having the rectangular opening 2 for strap insertion and the button-receiving and -retaining opening 3. The edges of the body portion are radiused rearwardly, as at 4, to reinforce the sheet material and to lend a finished appearance to the face of the body portion I. Beyond the rectangular opening 2 the body portion 1 terminates in a rolled edge portion 5 for a purpose to be forthwith explained. The numeral 6 designates the wire portion of the device which is of rectangular form having the long bar 1, the side bars 8 and 9 and the bar portions and H in relative alignment, one with the other, and in parallel relation to the bar 1. The two portions 1 and B of the device are assembled, one to the other, by means of positioning the relatively aligned bars l0 and I! within the rolled edge thereby permitting the wire portion 6 to have a hinged movement therein and the bar 1 to intersect the rectangular opening 2 of the body portion I thus providing for the opening 2 an intermediate bar that may be swung to a position overhead to leave the opening 2 unimpaired when desired.

The relative position of the portions i and 6 of the improved device in which the long bar I of the wire portion lies over and across the rectangular opening 2 of the body portion I may be seen illustrated by the Figure 1, the inserted strap, which in use accompanies such position, being omitted. It will be noted that, as the bar 1 lies across the opening 2, it converts the opening 2 into a pair of loops in a common plane in a manner similar to the well-known structure in which the intermediate bar is a permanently fixed part of that structure, and in which each of the pair of loops must provide an adequate opening for the easy insertion of a strap to be threaded therein. An object of the improved device, in the absence of the bar 1 which is swung overhead out of the way, is the reduced width of the opening 2 that is made possible; for the strap S, as illustrated by the Figure 2, is passed into the opening 2, looped around the swung out bar 1 and then repassed into the opening 2 and made taut within the device thereby positioning the bar 1 in an intermediate bar position relative to the opening 2 whereby the inserted strap S may be held within divided portions of the opening 2 upon either side of the bar 7 with an increased binding grip without the aid of humps or formations usually required in connection with a pair of loops separated by a fixed intermediate bar.

The teeth 12 provided by the body portion 1 of the device within the opening 2, as illustrated by the Figure 1 may be omitted, if desired.

I claim:

A two part slide loop comprising a sheet body part having a rectangular opening therethrough for the insertion of a strap, said opening being bounded by integral portions of said sheet body providing an upper bar and side bars; a series of teeth provided by said upper bar and depending therefrom downwardly within said strap opening; a tubular formation parallel with said series of teeth and provided by said upper bar; and a rectangular wire loop part of said slide loop, said wire loop having an upper bar and a lower bar each parallel one to the other and relatively connected at their ends by the wire side bars, said wire upper bar being rotatingly confined within said tubular portion of said sheet body part and said lower wire bar providing in one position an intermediate bar at the front of said. opening and thus presenting itself along its length closely to said series of teeth so as to positively impinge therebetween a strap inserted from the rear within said opening above said intermediate bar, folded therearound and returned to the rear through said opening below said intermediate bar, the side bars of both slide loop parts being relatively engageable to prevent said intermediate bar passing rearwardly through said opening.

GEORGE HENRY ELWELL.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,107,126 Wilson Aug. 11, 1914 1,741,619 Fenton Dec. 31, 1929 1,917,151 Perrine July 4, 1933 1,936,057 Hodge Nov. 21, 1933 2,057,012 Craig Oct. 13, 1936 2,248,918 Anderson July 15, 1941 2,354,306 Elwell July 25, 1944: 2,394,159 Elwell Feb. 5, 1946 

